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Identifier:

00001238

Language:

eng

Type:

image

Format:

jpg

Transcript:

[partial transcription]
Reisen Hotel, Skeppsbron, Stockholm, Sweden, 8 July 1941
My dearest Bertie,
I’m writing this under the most miserable circumstances imaginable: evacuated from Vehmersalmi and all my interest and belongings.…
Transport of course disorganised in the first days of war: I had to row 25 kilometers in a rowing boat to get train. Russian planes overhead, refugees arriving from the east, frequent air raids in Helsinki while I was there.… I was 6 days in Helsinki and only had 2 meals … [b]ut meals are the very least of one worries.…